#In sound mind ign review full

Synergy is the name of the game here, and a particular duo jived so well that they were rarely absent from my party: Thorani, the hydromancer with a healing touch, and Baozhai, the damage-dealing pirate queen. Conversely, if you want to madly tap the face buttons and send everyone in for an all out-actually, you can! There's plenty of room for experimentation, too, encouraging you to think tactfully about your party makeup because each character has vastly different utility from one another. Turns are linked to the entire party as a whole rather than an individual character, so you can use anyone repeatedly - or not at all. It's a hybrid between real-time and turn-based in which each of your four party members is assigned to a face button – so pressing 'X' will make whichever character is tied to that button attack or block, depending on if the enemy is attacking at the time. Sometimes, though, you have to stop exploring and throw hands – and that’s when it becomes apparent that Indivisible's combat is brilliant. I've never seen a game so elegantly weave 2D sprites with 3D backgrounds – it’s to the point that there's no contrast between them whatsoever.įrom bustling Arabian-inspired marketplaces to stone-walled temples in the jungle, Indivisible is a total knockout. From bustling Arabian-inspired marketplaces to stone-walled temples in the jungle, Indivisible is a total knockout. It's also an excellent excuse to admire all the breathtaking landscapes. Retreading previous areas and trying out new toys to see what hidden pathways you might've missed the first time around gets a lot of mileage out of the world. Take the spear, for example: your first inclination might be to waltz up to enemies and stick'em with the pointy end, which you can do, but it's more useful as a means to pole vault Ajna up to high ledges that she couldn't reach before.

That's what makes the mobility items you find throughout Indivisible so much fun: they always have a dual purpose.

A doorway covered in tree roots isn't such a big deal when you can chop away wood. Suddenly, more of the temple opened up because I had a tool that increased mobility and cleared obstacles. It made for fun navigation, but was still pretty standard platforming fodder – that is, until I found the axe, which lets Ajna scale up walls more easily.

#In sound mind ign review full

The first real test came in the form of an underground temple full of wall-jumping and leaps over hazardous spike pits. Its Metroidvania styled platforming is nothing to scoff at. It was a pleasant surprise when my concerns turned out to be for naught, and the mix was intoxicating from start to finish. It was impressive how well the two blended early on, but I was worried Indivisible might come apart at the seams as it juggled increasingly intricate level design and more combo-dense fights. Indivisible is built on two types of gameplay: 2D platforming while exploring and party-based fights with cooldown-centric combat reminiscent of Valkyrie Profile’s turn-based battle system.

Otherwise she won't open her third eye and access the hidden powers buried within her. If she wants to be a true hero she has to confront her egoism and realize anger is a fool's paradise. Whenever a problem rears its head, her first reaction is to throat-punch it and move on, insisting that it's her way or the highway. And while the plot is a bit trite in the early goings, it quickly grows beyond any familiar tropes and into a unique story that I came to love thanks to Ajna's character development. 'Here we go again,' I thought, assuming Indivisible would staunchly adhere to a typical RPG hero's journey as Ajna vowed revenge and brashly took to the open road.